[Zope-Coders] unicode question
Brian Lloyd
brian.lloyd@zope.com
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:35:40 -0400
> Thanks Andreas. That answers it for the ZCatalog package.
>
> I'm also looking for a more general policy statement on Zope and Unicode.
The official policy statement is: we don't want to be writing
new code that (intentionally) would prevent unicode from being
used in a given situation.
Getting Zope unicode-friendly will take time, and will need to
be tackled in a number of projects. Some will tackle actually
making use of unicode (for I18N), and others will be concerned
with fixing old code that is not prepared to see unicode.
Most of the hard issues will be dealt with in the proposals and
other artifacts of those projects. When we run into (presumably
smaller) unicode-related issues in other work, the right answer
is to either make the code unicode-friendly (for minor things)
or to escalate the issue to a proposal (when we run into an
unexpected can of worms).
Brian Lloyd brian@zope.com
Software Engineer 540.361.1716
Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com